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Liberal Rabbis Rue DP Bill,
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (JTA)—The Congress-approved bill CONG. BNAI MOSHE: Evening
to admit 205,000 displaced persons to the United States with-
services at 7:30 p.m. Friday,
July 2. Morning services at 9
in the next two years was - criticized at the 59th annual con-
Saturday. Daily services at 7:15
vention of the Central Conference of American Rabbis. The
a.m. and 8:30 p.m.
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bill was described as "converted from a humanitarian project
into a scheme to sift the refugees on the basis of nationality, CONG. BNAI DAVID: Services at
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creed • and calling, a policy ab-'
horrent to the American princi- the U. S. command in Europe,
ple of no discrimination with re- addressing the convention, said
gard to race, religion or national that "although American Jews
origin.
will continue to help Israel with
The parley also expressed ap- material and moral support and
proval of the recent U. S. Su- guidance, the trend and direc-
preme Court decision declaring tion of the- future must be to-
released time educational pro- ward complete disassociation of
grams that involve the use of non-Palestinian Jewry with the
public schools invalid. Follow- political affairs of Israel. On the
ing a recommendation by i t s other hand, the government of
Church and State Committee, Israel must scrupulously avoid
the convention agreed to press the giving of instructions to cit-
concertedly for the discontinu- izens of other countries.
ance of the released time pro-
Advocating that all rabbis
gram in many of those commun- spend a year of training in Is-
ities. where it is still in oper- rael and that American Jewish
ation.
children be sent there for study,
A report submitted by the con- Rabbi Bernstein predicted that
vention's Commission on Justice the major interest of American
and Peace called for a liberal Jewish community life will now
platform of social action with shift from pro-Zionist political
the "principles of prophetic Ju- and philanthropic activities to
daism." An end to discrimination the development of religious and
in education and employment, cultural programs in the U. S.
elimination of the poll tax and
The conference called on the
lynching and freedom from gov- U. S. government to implement
ernmental intimidation through its recognition of Israel with
the practice of "imputing guilt financial assistance "from t h e
by association" were also advo- world's oldest democracy to its
cated.
youngest." A report submitted
Rabbi Philip S. Bernstein, for- by the Conference Committee on
mer advisor on Jewish affairs to Palestine urged • Britain to "dis-
avow its pro-Arab policy and to
help achieve in the Near East
Tikvah Lodge Reelects the democracy that - shall be a
of justice in one of the
President Louis Barden bulwark
world's most strategic areas."
A system of placement for
Louis E. Barden was re-elected
president of Tikvah Lodge of rabbis and congregations affil-
iated with Liberal Judaism
,Bnai Brith for 1948-49.
which would avoid "undignified
Serving with him are Sam L. competition" was advocated at
Schneider and Max H. Littky. the convention by Dr. Louis L.
vice presidents; Robert A. Siegel, Mann of Chicago.
To be administered jointly by.
the Central Conference, the Un-
ion of American Hebrew C o n -
gregations and the Hebrew Un-
ion College-Jewish Institute of
Religion, -the plan proposed by
Dr. Mann would seek to avoid
the "extremism of anarchy, on
the one hand, and the extremism
of hierarchy on the other." At
present, Liberal Jewish congre-
gations have complete autonomy
in the choice of a rabbi, while
the rabbis themselves can apply
for pulpit vacancies.
An increase in the member-
ship of Reform Jewish congre-
gations • from 59,000 families to
well over 100,000, families dur-
ing the past eight years was
reported by Rabbi Sylvan D.
Schwartzman, director of field ac-
tivities of the Union of American
Hebrew Congregations. The num-
LOUIS E. BARDEN
ber of synagogues affiliated with
Louis J. Cohen and Nat Benton, the UAHC rose from 305 to 364.
In order to expand its mem-
secretaries, and Solomon C.
bership to 1,000,000 Jews with-
Superfon, treasrer.
in the next ten years, Rabbi
Other officers are Jack Lieber- Schwartzman declared, "Liberal
man, chaplain; Louis Woronow, Judaism must realistically af-
warden; Joseph Mehr, guardian; firm the centrality of the syna-
gogue, develop an educated and
Bernard Panush, Ira G. Kauf- emotionally - inspired member-
man, Arthur L. Schultz, Alfred ship and an informed Jewish lai-
Brook, Dr. W. A. Goldberg; Frank ty as a prime necessity for sur-
Holtzman and Louis Stoller, vival and bring the prophetic
trustee, and Phillip Kramer, teaching of Judaism to bear
upon the problems of modern
Jack Charlip, Max Biber, Sam society."
Korby and Sam Hooberman,
board members.
Friday, July 2, 1948
Mrs. Batya Greenberg, noted
lecturer and worker for L a.•13 o r
Zionism, will
address the ex-
c u tive boards
of all clubs of
the Pioneer
Women's Or-
anization of
Detroit at a
luncheon at
12:30 p.m. Wed-
nesday, July 7,
at Huyler's.
Mrs. Greenberg M r s . Green-
berg's rich Jewish background
was augmented by a visit to Pal-
estine several years ago, when
she studied the institutions of
the Working Women's Council,
of which Pioneer Women is the
American Agency.
For information and reserva-
tions, call the PWO office, TO.
9-7180.
8 p.m. Friday, July 2; 9 a.m. Sat-
urday, July 3. Rabbi Joshua
Sperka will preach on "The
New Israel." Pirke Abot class
at 7:15 p.m. Saturday. Mincha
at 8:15, followed by Sholoss
Seudess.
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CONG. SHAAREY ZEDEK: Serv-
ices at 6 p.m. Friday, July 2.
Sabbath morning worship at 9.
Rabbi Morris Adler will preach;
Cantor Jacob • Sonenklar will
officiate. Midweek services at
7:15 and 8 a.m. and 8:45 and 9
p.m.
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NORTHWEST HEBREW CONG.:
Sabbath services at 9 a.m. Sat-
urday, July 3. Rabbi Jacob E.
Segal will preach. Cantor Pavel
Due to the observance of In-
Slavensky will chant the pray-
dependence Day on Monday, July
ers.
5, as well as on Sunday, July 4,
there will be an earlier deadline
for the issue following the holi-
day. All copy and photographs
for the issue of July 9 will have
The Men's Club of Cong. Bnai to be in the office of The Jewish
David held its annual installation News not later than at 3 p. m.
of officers June 24. Myron Solo-
mon, chairman, installed the on Friday 2.
Bnai Brith Women
Lay Donor Plans
Mrs. Gerald Goldberg, newly-
elected president of the Greater
Detroit Bnai Brith Women's
Council, announces that plans
are being formulated for the
city-wide fund-raising affair to
be held in November.
Annabell Coggan was named
general chairman for the event,
to be assisted by. Goldie Gold,
ads; Belle Bloom, editor; Lil
Aaron, arbitration; Fay Zager,
publicity; Rose Manning, fi-
nance; Yetta Yates, tickets; 'Ann
Gutterman, arrangements, a n
Evelyn Bruss, ball..
The Council includes 15 de-
troit Bnai Brith Women's Chap-
ters.
Earlier Deadline
For July 9 Issue
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following officers for 1948-49:
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president, Arthur Meisels; secre-
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Board committees: Myron Solo-
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David Liebow; soldiers, Barney
Ross; youth program, Lou Trot-
sky; by-laws, John o Graff; pub-
licity, Samuel Traison.
Rabbi Joshua S. Sperka was
speaker for the evening.
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Bnai David Sisterhood
Installs '48-49 Officers
Bnai David Sisterhood has in-
stalled the following officers for
1948-49:
Mesdames David J. Cohen,
president; Seldon Leach, vice
president; Martin .Feldman, Ben
Fellows, William B. Reid, secre-
taries; David Liebow, treasurer;
Morris Sandubrae, chaplain, and
Joseph Baker and Joseph Feigle-
man, sergeants-at-arms.
The first board meeting was
held at the home of Mrs. Seldon
Leach. Mrs. Dan Otis was named
chairman of the annual donor
luncheon. Mrs. Bernard Dosie
and Mrs. Sam Traison are co-
chairmen for the souvenir book-
let. The luncheon is scheduled
for Dec. 7 at the synagogue.
Reformist Church Urges
French Aid to Israel •
PARIS, (JTA)—The National
Synod of the French Reformist
Church issued a statement call-
ing on the French Government
to give all aid to the new state
of Israel and to help "protect
the Jewish people from war."
Former Detroiter Tells
Israers Success Secret
Edith Levine of Haifa, former
Detroiter, writing to her sister,
Mrs. M. Levine, of 2498 W. Davi-
son, Detroit, describing the hero-
ism of Israel, explains that "be-
hind each one of us is the spirit
of 100 antagonists."
In her interesting letter, she
writes: "Behind every small re-
volver held by a Jewish defender
is the spirit of - a cannon. That is
the secret of our success. That is
why all the enemies of Israel put
together with the British (you
know the English are fighting us)
will crumble."
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